Photography Classes

The photography classes  will be directed by the Australian artist Destiny Deacon, and the distinguished Austrian photographer Elfie Semotan together with Roberto Ohrt, the writer and art historian known primarily for his pioneering research into the Situationists.

Destiny Deacon's workshop will encourage the participants to tell stories about what's in and around them by using what they can find or make where they are - from documentary photography to shamelessly mixing fact and fiction, objects, places and people hunted and gathered from inner and outer landscapes ... The aim is to make truthful images combining imagination, observation, illusion and the everyday.

Elfie Semotan's course will focus on exploring the extremes of photography, with special interest in the interplay between exaggeration and negation. These two concepts will be dealt with by considering topics such as superartificial, dirty, trash, non-photo, etc. The first week will be focussed on light, the second on fashion photography.